Re: Leftists and Electoral Politics Re: California recall results

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Best just to be a revolutionary and try to develop
> soldarity where you can, at work, in the streets and
> everywhere you go.  Sure, vote for whomever you like,
> but nobody is going anywhere until the working class
> organizes to take power for itself.

Thanks for your advice, but I am not interested much in what the political
left says, really, I am interested in the conditions for success in all
fields, and I do not want to hang around people who tell me what I am not,
what I am incapable of, what cannot happen, what you cannot do, what you
cannot achieve, why something is impossible, why you are wrong, and so on.
It distract from what I can and could do. Because I just think, yeah,
there's always limits, and sometimes I miss the bus, shit happens. I do know
that that lots of Leftists find psychic comfort in the ability of not being
able to do something, and telling the world about it, but personally I find
it terrible, and so I would rather hang out with people, who do want to do
the things that it takes to succeed, and find out what you need to do,
rather give me a complicated story and then say "tell me the answer",
because in that case I am better off rereading the Beatitudes.

I think Camejo fought a great political campaign, and I congratulate him for
that, for his dedication and commitment and creativity, and after the
disappointment of the election result, I would now focus on what we have
achieved, how far we have come, and what we should conclude from experience
about the way we want to tacke things in the future. And if people want to
prattle about lesser evil theories in justification, or talk about all the
things we cannot do, then I prefer to leave them to it, and get on with it
for myself. Best thing is that Camejo was out there, and if Arnold's
policies are a disaster for any reason, at least Camejo can say that he
provided an alternative, and is in no way responsible for the mess, and that
really people ought to think more of the alternative he offers if they
really want to improve life in California for people who work hard but don't
have a lot of money. The honest thing is when we can specify the priorities
we have, the useless thing is if we try to find a justification for what
didn't happen anyway.

United we stand,

Jurriaan